5 Gyres
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Company Overview
The 5 Gyres Institute is dedicated to eliminating plastic pollution in our world's oceans and watersheds. Through Education, Scientific Research and Action-Based Solutions, 5 Gyres aims to reduce the amount of plastic swept into our Gyres. Utilizing research-based findings, we engage youth, corporate partners, policymakers, and the public to reduce plastic pollution.
What's a gyre?
Ocean gyres are large circular ocean currents formed by global wind patterns. The world has 5 major ocean gyres. Ocean gyres circle large areas of stationary calm water. Polluted debris drifts into these stationary ocean areas and often accumulate for years due to the region’s lack of movement,..
The Great Pacific Garbage Patch has become renown as the largest of these polluted regions. and is a soupy plastic accumulation of debris [stretching for ?? square miles?]. However, each Gyre is forming it’s own garbage patch that grows larger everyday from plastic pollution and human created debris.
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